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The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care - Mental Health in Historical Perspective Alice Mauger 1st ed. 2018 edition
The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care - Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Alice Mauger
This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed interactions between gender, religion, identity and insanity.
260 pages, 5 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 260 p. 5 illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 26, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9783319652436 |
| Publishers | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Pages | 281 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 508 g |
| Language | German |
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